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...Lowdown:It's a hefty task, trying to tell the history of man through a single animal. Beef attempts this, much in the vein of the many "(Name of Product): How (synonym for name of product) Changed the World"-type books that have flooded the market in the past decade. And it does a lot of admirably hefty lifting, offering fascinating interludes about Spanish bullfighting and Masai tribesmen in some places and a really delicious rib recipe or a listing of different cheeses in others. But the authors' florid writing-"Herders constitute neither the world's oldest profession, nor indeed...
Your humor relies on a presumption that people know what you're talking about. Do you think this makes it less accessible than other types of humor? My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not. I wanted to create the kind of dizzying sense that there is a deranged person just speaking and speaking and speaking. If you catch the references, all the better. If you are tempted to try to look up some of the references, it might deepen your experience and you might find jokes that you hadn...
...published an article in which Bush defended the brandings, comparing them to cigarette burns ... In a News story the next day, Bush is quoted calling the branding "insignificant." He said he did not understand how the News "can assume Yale has to be so haughty not to allow this type of pledging to go on." (Source: Yale Daily News, December...
Vijay Jain ’11 is not the type to rely on a shuttle for his trip to class in the morning. The Mather House resident said he prefers to walk the half-mile distance from his dorm to the Yard...
...financial crisis, John McCain took a big, and many would say ill-advised, risk, announcing he was suspending his campaign and even threatening to skip the first debate to get "in the arena," as his hero Teddy Roosevelt put it. He returned to Washington and attempted to demonstrate a type of leadership on the financial crisis that would distinguish him from Obama's more hands-off approach. The effort to help craft a bipartisan bailout plan had muddled results, mainly because McCain's influence among House Republicans, the crucial voting bloc, was limited. Nonetheless, after an initial bailout plan...